Microsoft is killing off Internet Explorer and will rebrand its internet browsing software under what is currently code-named Project Spartan, later this year.

Toronto start-up Wattpad is looking for ways to boost revenue as competitors fire up similar online story-sharing services.

Diligent Board Member Services expects sales growth of up to 19 per cent in 2015 as it attracts customers to its BoardBooks service, and plans to launch a new product this year.

As rivalry between Australasian accounting software foes Xero and MYOB heats up, an investment blog has found a novel method of comparing the two companies' prospects.

Murray Holdaway is an unlikely star of the silver screen.

The Time Queen shares her experience using voice recognition software to save hours typing documents.

Robots can leave all future high-tech workers and, potentially, all future low-tech workers worse off.

Vint Cerf, one of the people who helped build the internet (and who's now been assimilated by Google of course), is warning about a digital Dark Age.

Twitter said government requests for user data and content removal jumped in the second half of 2014.

In November last year Datacom attended the New Zealand Job Fair in Sydney, organised by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

Point-of-sale software company Vend has grown to more than 200 staff and seven offices worldwide, and chief executive Vaughan Rowsell expects it to keep expanding.

Steve Jobs defended Apple's use of software for the iPod that blocked compatibility with a competing digital music store.

A billion-dollar class-action lawsuit over Apple's iPods heads to trial after nearly a decade in legal wrangling.

Shares of Finzsoft Solutions jumped to a record after the financial software developer reported a profitable first half on Friday.

Leaders of Samsung Electronics' mobile-phone unit may be replaced as the company tries to revive a business where profits slumped by $4.5b.

Anthony Dixon is happy to be back. The chief executive of electronics technology company Times-7 was in front of New Zealand's angel community again at the annual showcase investment event, but this time he had a lot more to smile about.

WhatsApp, the world's most popular instant messaging platform, has begun encrypting all its data by default.

Shades of Silicon Valley are bubbling up in Tehran, which is home to a growing tech ecosystem, despite significant challenges.

Tech giants like Apple keep looking for overseas tax loopholes as their foreign cash has piled up to almost absurd levels.

US prosecutors have moved to bolster their case against two Wall St stockbrokers allegedly involved in an insider trading scandal.

Andrew Ferrier is well and truly back in the public eye.

Tech is part of everyone's life in Japan, but doesn't appear to have supplanted their livelihood, even for menial tasks.